In recent weeks, the Movement for Governance and Democracy has turned to the court administration demanding that they receive the judges’ calendars under the Freedom of Information Law.

The movement demanded that the judges’ diaries and the diaries of the deputy legal advisers be exposed and thus exposed to their daily schedule, and thus to ascertain with whom the judges usually meet as part of their work and to ascertain whether any of them also meet with political parties.

However, the courts did not hasten to grant the request and demanded in return 18,000 shekels for the translation of the judges’ diaries and 6,000 shekels for the transcripts of the registrar’s diaries, estimated at 601 hours of work.

The movement of governors initially announced that they could not meet the required amount, but soon a mass mobilization campaign was launched, which within a day managed to raise the full amount from the public.

Attorney Simcha Rothman of the Movement for Governance said in response that the court decided in a petition filed by journalist Raviv Drucker to reveal the diaries of the prime minister that although the right to privacy overrides the principle of the public’s right to know, Elected officials, but this does not apply to elected officials.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)